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Carbon tax ‘foolish and unnecessary’ 2008-05-21 18:45:23 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called Dion’s carbon tax foolish and unnecessary
and was simply a cash grab for the government. Until the Canadian government comes up with a sensible and practical way to make the new tax revenue-neutral, I must agree.
www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/05/21/harper-carbon.html
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Another Badly-Placed Temperature Station 2008-05-21 07:01:49 Dateline: Monroe, North Carolina. A temperature monitoring station sits just outside the local fire station, which is also next to a major highway. The device also sits within feet of a brick wall which, as described in the article, is a major heatsink at night. As if that were not enough, [...]
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Obama’s “Carter Syndrome” 2008-05-21 06:52:34 Cute editorial cartoon depicting Barack Obama
saying “we can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want, and keep our homes at 72 degrees at all times…and then expect that other countries are going to say OK.” Maybe Obama has some socialist tendencies that need attention before he can move into the [...]
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Funding Causes Global Warming 2008-05-21 06:47:10 Penguins, polar bears and now moose are “threatened” by global warming. This article, from American Thinker, delves into the real cause of global warming: grants that fund research to find anomalies then tie them back to global warming.
www.americanthinker.com
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By the Numbers: How Mainstream Media Ignores Global Warming Hoax 2008-05-20 20:16:00 I set out on a journey to see if the mainstream press takes an active role in shoving the skeptical view of the global warming hoax under the rug. Using Google News, some search algorithms and a few hours of my time, I came up with a rather interesting revelation.
My first task was quite [...]
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Evangelicals seek million supporters of ‘We Get It!’ campaign 2008-05-20 17:52:18 Evangelical Christians are banding together to support the We Get It campaign to turn the tide on the largely one-sided global warming debate. The group wishes to stop the global warming nonsense to help the world’s poor from having basic necessities, like food, taken from them [...]
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DNC Eco-Friendly Catering Requirements Hard to Chew 2008-05-20 14:46:14 Let’s see if the eco-libs put their money where their mouth is: organizers for the Democratic National Convention to be held in Denver, Colorado, are asking caterers to use reusable and/or biodegradable plates as well as organic or locally-grown food. Prices for organic and locally-grown food are typically double that of imported products, [...]
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‘Lear Jet Liberals’: Our List of Some of Hollywood’s Worst Global Warming Hypocrites 2008-05-20 09:23:32 Leonardo DiCaprio, Barbara Streisand and John Travolta. Hollywood
celebrities and global warming activists. Except in their own lives. Sean Hannity takes a look at Lear Jet Liberals
in this segment on Fox News.
www.foxnews.com
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Will We Roll Back Unneeded Environmental Regulations? 2008-05-20 06:18:18 When global warming is finally determined to be a hoax, will we roll back all these unnecessary emissions-cutting programs? Probably not, and the author has some insight into why.
mikesamerica.blogspot.com
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Carbon tax would hurt poor, NDP says 2008-05-23 08:44:30 This guy is right on: a carbon tax, used to curb energy use, will be a burden on the poor. In Canada, it’s cold! So why make the cost of heating one’s home more expensive? The liberals in our neighbor-to- the-north want to tax, tax, tax [...]
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Just Follow the Global Warming Green 2008-05-22 16:42:27 As the global warming hoax spreads around the world, it becomes more evident that some, besides Al Gore, stand to profit. This, from MoonBattery.com, says GE is having its mercury-filled fluorescent light bulbs pushed by legislation at the federal level as well as NBC spewing the [...]
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How to Cook Up Global Warming Graphs 2008-05-22 16:42:20 RealClimate.org has a thorough article here on Roy Spencer, a global warming scientist. The article goes through a lifecycle on how graphs can be whipped together to show how the planet is warming, with a tweak here and some highly irregular data there.
www.realclimate.org
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U.S. Postal Service’s Ethanol Money-Waster 2008-05-22 10:29:15 The U.S. PostalService
purchased 30,000 vehicles that run on ethanol between 1999-2005. The result? The division of the U.S. Government used more than 1.5 million additional gallons of fuel as the vehicles were found to be as much as 29 miles per gallon LESS efficient than their traditional fuel counterparts. Way [...]
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Northern BC Municipalities Threaten To Withold Carbon Tax Money 2008-05-22 05:58:23 In a step in the right direction for British Columbia, some municipalities are threatening to hold all carbon tax revenue until it is proven that the tax is revenue-neutral. This is truly an example of the government working for the people.
gpconservative.blogspot.com
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McCain’s Global-Warming Plan Upsets Conservatives 2008-05-22 05:58:20 How does “conservative” John McCain
’s global warming plan work? While it’s slightly less restrictive than the Democrats’ plan, it is forecast to make the economy take a $1.7 trillion hit on the economy by 2030, with most of that burden being carried by the middle class.
www.humanevents.com
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First In Nation ‘Pollution Fee’ Coming To SF 2008-05-22 05:58:17 The Bay Area has voted to implement a pollution fee of 4.4 cents per ton and, while this may not seem much, oil refineries and power plants are expected to pay upwards of $50,000 per year.
www.nbc11.com
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Canadiens in British Columbia Feel Obligated to Cut Emissions According [...]
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Memorial Day: Time for Hot Dogs, BBQ and … Snow? 2008-05-24 15:02:36 Visitors to Vermont this long holiday weekend in the U.S. are in for a treat: snow flurries up in the higher elevations of Vermont. Ski resorts, after getting off to a slow start in November, are flourishing late into May as cold and snowy weather continues to hit the northeast. Global warming [...]
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Leaders Told Battle to Stem Global Warming Slowing 2008-05-24 13:40:35 The U.N. climate chief is concerned over a slow down in measures to combat global warming and is wondering if a new pact on global climate change can be reached by December 2009. The problem lies with the politicizing of the issue and how countries around the world can be equally responsible for doing [...]
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All Sanity Lost in Global Warming Scam 2008-05-23 19:49:38 All sanity has been lost in the global warming hoax. The environmentalists and politicians perpetrating the hoax have forced the governments of the world to bow to their demands and enact legislation to restrict what we do best: grow our culture and our economy and [...]
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More Science Around Sunspots And Global Cooling 2008-05-23 19:49:04 As we wait for solar cycle 24 to begin, let’s step back and look at the lack of sunspots and how it correlates to the global cooling experienced around the globe during the winter of 2007-2008. When sunspots are a minimum , cosmic rays penetrate the troposphere and [...]
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Jupiter’s Climate Change - Better Call Gore 2008-05-23 19:48:28 Jupiter is experiencing its own climate change issues that could lead to decreased spots in its atmosphere. The planet is expected to warm precipitously at the equator and cool at the poles, all without the help of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
diplomadic.blogspot.com
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Carbon Ration Cards to the Rescue 2008-05-27 10:53:56 In another brilliant move by the environmental left, carbon ration cards have been proposed to buy everything having to do with emissions. The article says that this is a fair way of reducing greenhouse gases without hurting the poor. The article goes on to say [...]
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Taming Concerts Carbon Excesses 2008-05-27 07:39:14 From the article:
During last July’s Live Earth concerts held simultaneously in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg, Al Gore tried to harness the promotional power of environmentally inclined rock stars like Madonna, The Police and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to raise global awareness of “a climate in crisis”. [...]
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British Columbia Carbon Tax to Cost Industry $500 Million 2008-05-26 19:54:18 Trade sector industries are banding together to convince the government in BritishColumbia
to modify the revenue-neutral terms of its proposed carbon tax, set to take effect in July. Under the existing plan, corporations would pay 70% of the tax burden but would only receive 30% [...]
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Just How Does “Revenue Neutral” Work? 2008-05-26 19:54:15 Conservative Canadian blogger Steve Janke explores what a revenue- neutral carbon tax really means. Hint: it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s neutral to the taxpayer, only the government.
stevejanke.com
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Scientific Truths Infected with Uncertainty 2008-05-26 17:02:30 I admit, I got the idea of writing this article from one I viewed over at ClimateChangeFraud.com. The author of that blog is right, though. Science is infected to the point that almost no one notices any longer.
To take a step back from the global warming angle for just a moment, let’s think back to [...]
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Climate Change Models Wrong Again 2008-05-26 15:30:07 Climate models used to predict the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere predicted a huge increase in temperatures in the planet’s troposphere over the last 30 years. When these 22 models were compared to actuals, there was little warming - even over tropical areas. How can we trust the science behind global warming models when they’re [...]
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UN wasting Billions on “Carbon Credits” 2008-05-26 13:50:44 You’d think the U.N. would be more careful after it’s oil-for-food scandal, but it appears the organization continues to mismanage their assets and authority. This time, the group has been handing out carbon credits to industries that have proclaimed their programs qualify. A watchdog group [...]
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Senate Debate for Global Warming Bill June 2nd 2008-05-26 13:50:41 The U.S. Senate
will be debating a substitute global warming bill beginning June 2nd that is sure to raise your taxes. The $900+ billion dollar proposal will be used to help individuals and industry pay for carbon-cutting measures as well as reduce the federal deficit. [...]
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